Albert, Prince Consort

Albert Alfred Alexander Krill, Prince Amaterasu (天照大御オキアミ王 Amaterasu-no-miya Okiami Shinnō; 29 December [O.S. 18 December] 1689) was the consort of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna Olympia by virtue of his marriage to her on 29 December [O.S. 18 December] 1709. He was born in the Tsardom of Russia to Tsar Peter the Great and his first wife, Tsarina Eudoxia Lopukhina. At the age of nineteen, he married his cousin Elizabeth; their eldest daughter Alexandra became the new Tsarina ("Empress") of the Olympia Empire, succeeding his late wife, Elizabeth. Subsequently, he became the Dowager Emperor, assuming a new role and taking on different responsibilities. Stifled by the rigid environment of the Russian Court and pressured into behaving well by his parents growing up; Alfred was happy in the extremely relaxed Imperial court in which his wife was born and grew into an avid lover of the arts, even taking his children to see art shows all of the time, when they were not in the classroom. He gradually developed a reputation for supporting public causes, such as educational reform and the abolition of slavery, and was entrusted with running the Empress`s household, office, and estates. He was also extremely and heavily involved with the organization and subsequent building of the statue of his beloved late mother-in-law in 1712, which was a resounding success.

His wife came to depend on him for advice, straining from medical matters to serious matters of the state; the gentle Alfred offered his council whenever he could, though he often admitted to his wife that he was not always helpful. He aided in the development of several welfare projects to benefit the nation as a whole—thus earning their admiration and endeavored to make his wife extremely appealing and popular to the public. His advice, however miniscule it might have been, aided in preventing the downfall of their monarchy and the Empire as they knew it at the time; he is widely credited as the "Progenitor of Olympia-Russian Relations", as he worked behind the scenes to prevent the two countries from engaging in acts of war against each other.

Childhood
The young Alfred was brought up by his mother, who was disdainful towards his father, the Tsar. Alfred was described as "often melancholy and quiet", to the point where his own father [Peter] thought that he was deaf; in truth, Alfred`s vocal cords had been mysteriously ruptured when he was first born, with him hemorrhaging much to the horror of his mother who immediately accused his father of trying to summon the "unearthly devil" by using Alfred as a catalyst. When he finally stopped bleeding from his throat; he was in great pain, shaking, and was unable to move from the breast of his mother. Thus his father placed him in the care of wet-nurses and one of his unmarried elder sisters, who became his surrogate mother. From the ages of 6 to 9, Alfred was educated by his surrogate mother who was a highly-educated woman herself, but after a subsequent bout of illness that left her confined to their shared bedchambers, Alfred was given over to the care of educated foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French. He mysteriously regained control of his vocal cords; with Peter praising the gods for finally allowing his son to regain usage of his voice.

Military career
In 1703, Alfred was ordered to follow the army to the field as a private in an artillery regiment. Due to his frail health; he fell ill and almost died several times due to close-calls during several bouts of different illnesses. However, Alfred was neither concerned with his health as he commented, "my health may be frail but my spirit shall never fail; for Russia is my home and I must earn my keep, same as anybody else." In 1704, he was present at the capture of Narva. Alexei Petrovich; the latter`s younger brother was horrified that he was not recalled back to the capital and commented, "I hate him so much! How could that bastard refuse to recall my beloved older brother from the battlefield! He almost died; the nerve of that man. I swear by the name of my older brother; I shall destroy him for the sake of revenge!" Alfred dedicated himself to the service of new Russia, often being found asking his father questions about important areas of the government and he often worked at odd times of the day. Though Alfred was left in the care of wet-nurses, he adored his father and looked up to him; another reason that caused the seething rage and hatred of Alexei towards Peter to grow to astronomical heights.

In 1708 Peter sent both Alexei and Alfred to Smolensk, where they collected supplies and recruits, and after that to Moscow to fortify it against Charles XII of Sweden. At the end of 1709, Alfred went to Darmstadt for one year. There, he finished lessons in French, German, mathematics and fortification. After his education, he proposed to his long-time love the Imperial Princess of the Olympia Empire: Elizabeth Petrovna. The Princess`s family [the Olympias`s] had been long-connected with the bloodline of the gods, through the birth of Erichthonius by the deity Charlotte Medea who impregnated the human empress Medea of Olympia. Charlotte Medea (a relative of the princess) was not impressed with the meek Alfred and pushed for her younger relative to choose a permissible spouse from the ruling dynasty of the Eyalet of Egypt; an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from the year 1517 to the year of 1867. Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg also petitioned the Queen consort to allow one of his elder male children to marry Elizabeth; the Queen vehemently refused and for the hubris shown by him and his family, he was cursed to have one of his female descendants die at the age of 10. Both Hera, Plato and the rest of their family members heavily favored Alfred to be the consort of their younger relative, to the point where they even began inviting Alfred to accompany them on hunting trips to the seaside. Eventually Charlotte relented and the two continued their engagement, with Alfred even bringing her to meet his father Tsar Peter the Great and his stepmother Catherine I of Russia. Though his fiancée was not visibly towards his stepmother, she clearly held a strong dislike for her and even Alfred was clearly uncomfortable with the situation itself; much like Alfred, she was very amiable towards Alfred`s father [Peter] and made many allusions to his military successes, congratulating him for "raising my beloved fiancée very well". Similarly, Alfred described the meeting between his fiancée and his father as, "the most stressful moment of my life. However it went very well; my beloved fiancée was very demure and gentle towards my father, the Tsar of Russia. It was as if we were sitting down to an informal chat; it went far better than our meeting with my father`s wife, that was really...awkward to say the least." Alūksne Petrovna Svahn; a Swedish noblewoman (a sister-in-law to the Queen of Sweden and a secret/closeted political ally of Alfred and the adoptive mother of Annika Svahn, a Finnish prisoner of war during the Great Northern War, was often found in the company of Alfred who welcomed her company. "Your fiancée is so wonderful and a powerful match, politically. Marry her quickly before anybody else can snatch her away from you, dear Alfred" wrote Peter in a letter dated 13 August 1710.

The marriage contract was signed in September. The wedding was celebrated in the middle of Olympia`s spring months, in Savoy, Olympia, on 14 October 1711 (O.S.). As he was merely the consort of his wife, Alfred immediately converted to Greek Orthodoxy the day before the wedding and decided to use his second name "Alfred" as part of his regnal name; his full regnal name upon his marriage was "Aristotle Alfred Apollo Alexander" with the surname of "Olympia" and the patronymic "Petrovich" being added to his regnal name.

As for the marriage itself, the first 6 months went well but quickly spiraled downward after Alfred experienced massive amounts of bleeding in his lungs again; the couple was horrified and Alfred was quickly rushed to a hospital. The entire Empire held it`s breath on whether the King consort would survive or not, when he did the entire country all breathed a sigh of relief. Alūksne joined the court of Alfred and Elizabeth by their invitation after much persuasion from her Swedish relatives, becoming the undisputed medical expert who resided in their court and who was able to use magic to completely heal his lung injuries in his throat and regenerate all of his blood that he lost while bleeding out. Highly sympathetic towards Princess Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Alfred and Elizabeth often invited the young Tsarevna to stay at their court, though Alūksne was suspicious of her and didn`t warm up to her in the slightest until the Swedish noblewoman saw her being harassed by some of Alūksne`s relatives-in-laws at which point she stepped in and told them off. After that, Alūksne personally followed the Tsarevna around to make sure that nobody was trying any funny business on Alfred`s sister-in-law; she even personally taught the Tsarevna how to make medicine, shoot a bow and hunt animals, all of them unusual activities for a woman of their time. In reward for her service to the Tsarevna, Alūksne was allowed to choose her own partner for marriage and chose a relative of Elizabeth`s own family, her favorite of her younger siblings, Adrian Alexandrovich Olympia. Alūksne`s Swedish relatives were furious but both Alfred and Elizabeth were elated at the prospect of actually being directly related to Alūksne, whom they considered to be one of their most dear friends. Alūksne later wrote, "I cannot describe in simple words how happy I am. The man whom I married today is such a gem; a sweet, compassionate, kind and loving man. He will give me a happy home, I can just tell."

Three weeks later, both Adrian and Alfred went into labor, Elizabeth was distraught when it seemed as if both men were going to die during childbirth; her sister-in-law reassured her, "they are both strong, they will get through this ordeal. Do not worry." The hopes of her sister-in-law proved truth and both of the imperial consorts survived with Adrian giving birth to quadruplets while Alfred gave birth to triplets. With the succession secured, the happy couples allowed themselves to temporarily retire from court life in order to raise their children. In their steed, Elizabeth`s next younger sibling after Adrian; Princess Philippa took over matters of the state, in order to aid with their burdens. The happy couples went to Toruń, unaware that a war was still waging on where they met up with Alfred`s younger brother and sister-in-law, Alūksne went into labor once more, giving birth to another child; this time a daughter whom she named Charlotte Christine after her sister-in-law, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. The Tsarevna was appointed godmother to the child in the case that Alūksne or her husband died while off waging war for the sake and good of the Empire and it`s people.

He had several children with Elizabeth:
 * Alexandra Alexandrovna Olympia (b. 14 October 1712)
 * Natalya Alexandrovna Olympia (21 July 1714 – 3 December 1728)
 * Peter Alexandrovich Olympia (23 October 1715 – 30 January 1730)

Alexandra Alexandrovna would succeed as the Empress Alexandra IV in 1727. With her death in 1730, the direct male and female-lines of the House of Olympia "seemly" became extinct. In all actuality, it continued through several of Alexandra`s children, namely among them the Grand Duchess Hestia. As a result, the Grand Duchess rose to power after the death of Alexandra, being the latter`s elder daughter with her own daughter the Grand Duchess Terri following in her steps to become the new Empress of Olympia.